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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37250416/chapters/92939974 Cut Strings]]'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' fanfic by Slider, author of ''Fanfic/MutantDeviations''.
Unlike in canon, Jean-Paul Vasil (alias "Alec") never gave up being a Heartbroken, and continued being Hijack in Brockton Bay, Mastering both Skitter and Tattletale, his erstwhile team-mates. After using and abusing both of them, this ends up biting him in the ass when his control slips, and Skitter kills him in a fit of rage.
The Undersiders disband, Coil is thrown into the Birdcage as an accomplice, and Taylor and Lisa are left in the care of Assault and Battery while they try to put themselves back together.
This fic is currently ongoing.
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!!This fanfic contains examples of the following:
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Jean-Paul's death allows Taylor and Lisa to become more heroic earlier on.
** [[spoiler: Aisha]] is also inspired to join the Wards after seeing what Hijack did.
* AdaptationalJerkass:
** Grue and Hellhound are willing to ignore Jean-Paul abusing his team-mates
* AdaptationalVillainy: Jean-Paul Vasil is a CompleteMonster who enjoyed sexually and psychologically abusing his teammates.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** Skitter and Tattletale eventually rebrand as Overwatch and Sightline.
** Aisha joins the Wards as Mnemonic.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Aisha Triggers with a Projection power.
* AssholeVictim: Everybody cheers when Hijack dies in chapter 1.
* BreakTheBadass: Taylor was on the receiving end of this at the hands of Hijack.
* BrokenBase: Aisha's love of Brian is completely severed by finding out he worked with Hijack.
* BrokenBird: By the time of Hijack's death, both Taylor and Lisa are broken to the point of being dysfunctional and co-dependent.
* ContentWarning: "Rape/NonCon" is one of the warning tags on the fic.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** Hijack had murdered Danny Hebert purely to psychologically torture Taylor.
** Jean-Paul dies at the end of chapter one, when Taylor sics her swarm on him.
** Coil is Birdcaged for sexually assaulting Taylor, so he's probably a dead man walking.
* TheDreaded: Jean-Paul 'Hijack' Vasil is this for Taylor, Lisa, and the PRT. Even after he's dead, they're reluctant to talk about him.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lisa doses up on a power-suppressing drug and then attempts to perform suicide-by-cop, with Taylor as the cop. It doesn't work.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Taylor will enjoy a pleasant day with Lisa and their friends, while a couple blocks away her bugs will be tearing into bad guys like a chainsaw through butter.
* GetOut:
** Aisha throws Brian out of her apartment after finding out he worked with Hijack, saying this verbatim.
** Taylor tells New Wave to remove Glory Girl from the premises, on the grounds that Victoria is a Master and Taylor [[TraumaButton is uncomfortable around Masters]].
* HairTriggerTemper: Taylor, after being a victim of Mastering, has to be restrained by Lisa.
* IHaveNoSon: Aisha disowns her own brother after finding out what he did with Hijack.
* MoralityChain: Assault, Battery, and Lisa are this for Taylor.
* OhCrap:
** Taylor has frequent panic attacks, and Lisa has to prompt her to breathe.
** Anyone who finds out that 'Alec' was actually Jean-Paul Vasil, or that 'Regent' was actually Hijack.
** Lisa has an ExplainExplainOhCrap moment when she discovers Battery is a Vial Cape, and panics when she thinks Contessa is about to enter the room.
** Taylor panics when she sees a Ward has a supply of Blackout.
** Director Armstrong has one Oh Crap after another in his interlude, running damage control in PRT ENE.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Taylor explicitly asks to hang out with ''Sophia Hess'' of all people because she can trust her ''not'' to act out-of-character.
* PaedoHunt: Coil is Birdcaged for Statutory Rape, in addition to being an accomplice in Hijack sex-trafficking his own teammates.
* ParentalSubstitute: Assault and Battery become Taylor and Lisa's foster parents, since Danny is dead and Lisa's parents are far away.
* PeoplePuppets: A rare instance of Taylor being the puppet rather than the puppeteer, courtesy of Jean-Paul Vasil.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Hijack had Mastered Taylor and Lisa so thoroughly that they could not consent, then used Lisa as a sex toy and pimped Taylor to Coil.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Quinn Calle doesn't hesitate to represent Taylor and Lisa as their lawyer.
** Kamil Armstrong is called in to replace Piggot as Director of PRT ENE. His first order of business is to clean house, while his second is to run Damage Control.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Grue quickly runs out of town after Hijack dies.
* ShoutOut:
** In an early chapter, Taylor directly compares her situation to ''Literature/MobyDick'', except she got to kill her 'whale' and lived.
** Taylor makes a ''Series/Lassie'' joke to Lisa while having lunch at Fugly Bob's.
* SuicideByCop: Attempted by Lisa, with Taylor as the cop. Averted when Taylor refuses to follow through.
* TraumaButton: Anything that could remind Taylor or Lisa of what Hijack had done to them- such as skimpy clothes, Blackout (a power-nullifying drug), or Glory Girl's aura, is something that they will react poorly to.
* TheWoobie: Taylor and Lisa are this by the beginning of chapter 2. Even New Wave feels sorry for them when they find out they're Master victims.
* YankTheDogsChain: While impersonating Taylor, Jean-Paul used her body to establish good rapports with both Danny and Emma, for the purpose of twisting the knife in Taylor's gut by killing the former and denying Taylor's revenge against the latter.
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Unlike in canon, Jean-Paul Vasil (alias "Alec") never gave up being a Heartbroken, and continued being Hijack in Brockton Bay, Mastering both Skitter and Tattletale, his erstwhile team-mates. After using and abusing both of them, this ends up biting him in the ass when his control slips, and Skitter kills him in a fit of rage.
The Undersiders disband, Coil is thrown into the Birdcage as an accomplice, and Taylor and Lisa are left in the care of Assault and Battery while they try to put themselves back together.
This fic is currently ongoing.
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!!This fanfic contains examples of the following:
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Jean-Paul's death allows Taylor and Lisa to become more heroic earlier on.
** [[spoiler: Aisha]] is also inspired to join the Wards after seeing what Hijack did.
* AdaptationalJerkass:
** Grue and Hellhound are willing to ignore Jean-Paul abusing his team-mates
* AdaptationalVillainy: Jean-Paul Vasil is a CompleteMonster who enjoyed sexually and psychologically abusing his teammates.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** Skitter and Tattletale eventually rebrand as Overwatch and Sightline.
** Aisha joins the Wards as Mnemonic.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Aisha Triggers with a Projection power.
* AssholeVictim: Everybody cheers when Hijack dies in chapter 1.
* BreakTheBadass: Taylor was on the receiving end of this at the hands of Hijack.
* BrokenBase: Aisha's love of Brian is completely severed by finding out he worked with Hijack.
* BrokenBird: By the time of Hijack's death, both Taylor and Lisa are broken to the point of being dysfunctional and co-dependent.
* ContentWarning: "Rape/NonCon" is one of the warning tags on the fic.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** Hijack had murdered Danny Hebert purely to psychologically torture Taylor.
** Jean-Paul dies at the end of chapter one, when Taylor sics her swarm on him.
** Coil is Birdcaged for sexually assaulting Taylor, so he's probably a dead man walking.
* TheDreaded: Jean-Paul 'Hijack' Vasil is this for Taylor, Lisa, and the PRT. Even after he's dead, they're reluctant to talk about him.
* DrivenToSuicide: Lisa doses up on a power-suppressing drug and then attempts to perform suicide-by-cop, with Taylor as the cop. It doesn't work.
* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask: Taylor will enjoy a pleasant day with Lisa and their friends, while a couple blocks away her bugs will be tearing into bad guys like a chainsaw through butter.
* GetOut:
** Aisha throws Brian out of her apartment after finding out he worked with Hijack, saying this verbatim.
** Taylor tells New Wave to remove Glory Girl from the premises, on the grounds that Victoria is a Master and Taylor [[TraumaButton is uncomfortable around Masters]].
* HairTriggerTemper: Taylor, after being a victim of Mastering, has to be restrained by Lisa.
* IHaveNoSon: Aisha disowns her own brother after finding out what he did with Hijack.
* MoralityChain: Assault, Battery, and Lisa are this for Taylor.
* OhCrap:
** Taylor has frequent panic attacks, and Lisa has to prompt her to breathe.
** Anyone who finds out that 'Alec' was actually Jean-Paul Vasil, or that 'Regent' was actually Hijack.
** Lisa has an ExplainExplainOhCrap moment when she discovers Battery is a Vial Cape, and panics when she thinks Contessa is about to enter the room.
** Taylor panics when she sees a Ward has a supply of Blackout.
** Director Armstrong has one Oh Crap after another in his interlude, running damage control in PRT ENE.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Taylor explicitly asks to hang out with ''Sophia Hess'' of all people because she can trust her ''not'' to act out-of-character.
* PaedoHunt: Coil is Birdcaged for Statutory Rape, in addition to being an accomplice in Hijack sex-trafficking his own teammates.
* ParentalSubstitute: Assault and Battery become Taylor and Lisa's foster parents, since Danny is dead and Lisa's parents are far away.
* PeoplePuppets: A rare instance of Taylor being the puppet rather than the puppeteer, courtesy of Jean-Paul Vasil.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Hijack had Mastered Taylor and Lisa so thoroughly that they could not consent, then used Lisa as a sex toy and pimped Taylor to Coil.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Quinn Calle doesn't hesitate to represent Taylor and Lisa as their lawyer.
** Kamil Armstrong is called in to replace Piggot as Director of PRT ENE. His first order of business is to clean house, while his second is to run Damage Control.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Grue quickly runs out of town after Hijack dies.
* ShoutOut:
** In an early chapter, Taylor directly compares her situation to ''Literature/MobyDick'', except she got to kill her 'whale' and lived.
** Taylor makes a ''Series/Lassie'' joke to Lisa while having lunch at Fugly Bob's.
* SuicideByCop: Attempted by Lisa, with Taylor as the cop. Averted when Taylor refuses to follow through.
* TraumaButton: Anything that could remind Taylor or Lisa of what Hijack had done to them- such as skimpy clothes, Blackout (a power-nullifying drug), or Glory Girl's aura, is something that they will react poorly to.
* TheWoobie: Taylor and Lisa are this by the beginning of chapter 2. Even New Wave feels sorry for them when they find out they're Master victims.
* YankTheDogsChain: While impersonating Taylor, Jean-Paul used her body to establish good rapports with both Danny and Emma, for the purpose of twisting the knife in Taylor's gut by killing the former and denying Taylor's revenge against the latter.
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